Explore internet speed by country: 198 countries ranked by M-Lab's open speed tests, with the fastest internet in the world by region.
Countries ranked by M-Lab's typical download over the last 12 months, from millions of open speed tests, with everyday prices, tax and safety beside it.
Southern EuropeSan Marino
288 Mbps · 79% of US prices · Worldwide · 20 years to citizenship
The countries
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Eastern Asia
Northern Europe
Northern America
Western Europe
Western Europe
9U.S. Virgin Islands
Caribbean
Western Europe
Northern America
Southern Europe
Western Europe
14New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Eastern Asia
Western Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern America
South America
Caribbean
Caribbean
Caribbean
Southern Europe
Caribbean
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Western Asia
Eastern Asia
South America
Northern Europe
Australia and New Zealand
39Portugal
Southern Europe
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South-eastern Asia
Central America
Western Asia
Northern Europe
Caribbean
Central America
Eastern Europe
47Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Caribbean
Western Europe
Western Asia
Caribbean
Eastern Europe
Northern America
Western Europe
Caribbean
Western Asia
Caribbean
Caribbean
Western Asia
South America
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Central America
Eastern Europe
South-eastern Asia
Eastern Europe
South America
Caribbean
Eastern Asia
Western Asia
South America
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Asia
Caribbean
South America
Eastern Asia
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Central America
Central America
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Melanesia
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
90Antigua and Barbuda
Caribbean
South America
Western Asia
South-eastern Asia
Western Asia
Southern Europe
Central America
Northern Europe
South America
South-eastern Asia
Caribbean
Eastern Europe
Western Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
South-eastern Asia
Western Asia
Caribbean
Central Asia
South America
Central America
South-eastern Asia
Melanesia
Central America
Caribbean
South America
Southern Africa
Western Asia
Eastern Africa
Caribbean
Eastern Africa
Eastern Europe
Southern Asia
Central Asia
South-eastern Asia
Polynesia
South America
Northern Africa
Southern Asia
South-eastern Asia
Eastern Africa
South America
Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Central Asia
Northern Africa
South-eastern Asia
Polynesia
Western Africa
Southern Asia
Northern Africa
Melanesia
Western Africa
South-eastern Asia
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Asia
Eastern Africa
Southern Asia
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Western Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Asia
Middle Africa
Caribbean
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Southern Asia
Eastern Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Western Africa
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Western Asia
Central Asia
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Southern Asia
Middle Africa
Caribbean
Western Asia
South-eastern Asia
Western Africa
Southern Europe
Melanesia
Micronesia
Eastern Africa
Polynesia
Northern Europe
Melanesia
Polynesia
Central Asia
South America
Eastern Asia
Middle AfricaHow it sorts: each thing you pick scores every country from 0 to 1 (live for less: the World Bank's price level against the US; lower tax: no income tax or a territorial system first, then remittance, then a worldwide system by its top rate; easy residency: open nomad, freelancer, passive income or retirement visas; fast citizenship: fewer years to naturalize, less if dual citizenship isn't allowed; start a company: a low corporate tax; fast internet: M-Lab's median download, from 5 Mbps (empty) to 150 Mbps (full) on a log scale; safe: the US travel advice, with Levels 1 and 2 both counting as everyday travel; visa-free on my passport: your passport's rule for the country), and the countries sort by the average. With nothing picked, it's a balance of cost, tax, residency and safety.
Prices: the World Bank's purchasing power conversion factor over the exchange rate (WDI, CC BY 4.0). Tax: the territorial tax map's classification and each country's rates. Citizenship and residency: official immigration sources in the visa finders' tables. Safety: the US State Department's advisories, read 2026-09-29. Internet: M-Lab's open speed tests over the last 12 months. Videos and photos from Pexels, Coverr, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons, credited on each country.
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Where is the internet fastest?
Countries ranked by M-Lab's typical download over the last 12 months, from millions of open speed tests, with everyday prices, tax and safety beside it.
In this guide, I'll show you:
- The top 20 countries, and why each ranks where it does
- How the ranking works
- More ways to compare countries
Open any country for its full guide, with visas for your passport, tax and costs.
TL;DRKey takeaways
The 20 countries with the fastest internet
The typical download is the middle of every user's daily result, so a machine testing all day counts once a day; the fastest quarter is what the top 25% of tests reached, closer to a good fiber line.
- Typical download
- 148 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 315 Mbps
- Users tested
- 697,101
- Typical download
- 126 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 327 Mbps
- Users tested
- 62,396,519
- Typical download
- 109 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 346 Mbps
- Users tested
- 12,187,093
- Typical download
- 102 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 286 Mbps
- Users tested
- 10,452,906
- Typical download
- 96 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 287 Mbps
- Users tested
- 1,588,226
- Typical download
- 93 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 281 Mbps
- Users tested
- 895,599
- Typical download
- 92 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 238 Mbps
- Users tested
- 449,364
- Typical download
- 91 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 283 Mbps
- Users tested
- 595,633
- Typical download
- 91 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 298 Mbps
- Users tested
- 1,546,642
- Typical download
- 89 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 222 Mbps
- Users tested
- 615,155
- Typical download
- 88 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 272 Mbps
- Users tested
- 23,652
- Typical download
- 83 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 214 Mbps
- Users tested
- 10,786
- Typical download
- 82 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 179 Mbps
- Users tested
- 62,535
- Typical download
- 81 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 225 Mbps
- Users tested
- 15,772
- Typical download
- 81 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 283 Mbps
- Users tested
- 4,862,539
- Typical download
- 81 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 241 Mbps
- Users tested
- 19,685,769
- Typical download
- 80 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 199 Mbps
- Users tested
- 1,904,252
- Typical download
- 75 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 274 Mbps
- Users tested
- 362,678
- Typical download
- 74 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 218 Mbps
- Users tested
- 14,073,287
- Typical download
- 73 Mbps
- Fastest quarter
- 220 Mbps
- Users tested
- 17,084,266
Small places with fewer than 10,000 users tested are left out of the ranking; among them, San Marino (288 Mbps), Jersey (260 Mbps), Faroe Islands (180 Mbps), Gibraltar (176 Mbps) and Macao (164 Mbps) read fastest.
The fastest internet by region
Here are the three fastest countries in each region, by the same tests:
- Europe – Denmark (148 Mbps), France (109 Mbps), Netherlands (96 Mbps)
- Asia – South Korea (91 Mbps), Japan (74 Mbps), Singapore (69 Mbps)
- Latin America – Uruguay (88 Mbps), Cayman Islands (83 Mbps), Puerto Rico (82 Mbps)
- North America – United States (126 Mbps), Canada (102 Mbps)
- The Middle East – Israel (75 Mbps), Qatar (60 Mbps), Bahrain (54 Mbps)
- Africa – South Africa (25 Mbps), Mauritius (22 Mbps), Algeria (17 Mbps)
- Oceania – New Zealand (93 Mbps), Australia (71 Mbps), French Polynesia (14 Mbps)
The slowest typical speeds, among countries with 1,000 tests or more, are in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Libya.
Why M-Lab reads lower than Speedtest
M-Lab's test opens one connection and measures what it can carry. Speedtest-style tests open several at once and add them up, so they read higher on the same line.
M-Lab's data is open, so anyone can check it, and the method is the same in every country. That makes it fair for comparing countries with each other.
For your own line, run the internet speed test, which uses the same M-Lab test.
How the ranking works
How it sorts: each thing you pick scores every country from 0 to 1 (live for less: the World Bank's price level against the US; lower tax: no income tax or a territorial system first, then remittance, then a worldwide system by its top rate; easy residency: open nomad, freelancer, passive income or retirement visas; fast citizenship: fewer years to naturalize, less if dual citizenship isn't allowed; start a company: a low corporate tax; fast internet: M-Lab's median download, from 5 Mbps (empty) to 150 Mbps (full) on a log scale; safe: the US travel advice, with Levels 1 and 2 both counting as everyday travel; visa-free on my passport: your passport's rule for the country), and the countries sort by the average. With nothing picked, it's a balance of cost, tax, residency and safety.
More ways to compare countries
Internet speed by country FAQs
Questions about it? Here's what to know.
Denmark has the highest typical download in M-Lab's open tests over the last 12 months.
M-Lab measures one connection at a time, so its figures read lower than a Speedtest result.
M-Lab's test uses a single connection, while Speedtest-style tests open several at once.
That makes M-Lab good for comparing countries with each other, not for checking a plan.
Run my internet speed test, which measures download, upload and latency in your browser.
It runs on the same M-Lab test, so your number compares with this list.
The fastest internet cities finder ranks 185 cities and islands by the same M-Lab tests.
Open any city for its speeds by month.
I've lived in Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
I'm a permanent resident of Panama, my home base.
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